Sea Otters
Sea otters eat fish, and marine invertebrates like crabs, urchins, sea stars, and abalone. Some of these animals have hard shells, making it difficult to get the meat inside. This isn't an issue for the sea otter, which uses rocks as tools to crack the shells of its prey.
Sea otters have a baggy patch of skin under their forelimbs, and this is used for storage. They can keep extra food in this spot, and also store a favorite rock for cracking the shell of their prey.
Read & learn:
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/sea-otter/
http://www.seaotter-sealion.org/seaotter/factsseaotter.html
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The babies are so , so cute, resting on mummies tummies while she floats on her back...smiling.
ReplyDeleteSo, sea otters have evolved pockets to keep their snacks in? :)
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ReplyDeletegordon hoselton Yeah, they're so cute. They sleep on their mommies tummy when they are babies, couples hold hands when they sleep so they don't float apart, 1 in 10 females die from drowning or trauma during rough sex and the males have been observed raping seal pups to death and keeping the corpses as sex toys for up to a week. Cute.
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